LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - DAY Dudley watches intently as Ed Exley skims a report, memorizing names and dates. Jack and other brass are also here along with a stenographer. So's Bud. One of these guys killed Stensland. Through tinted glass, the three suspects in three different rooms. EXLEY Casitas Youth Camp... Coates twenty-two, a boxer... Manager saw them burning clothes. Satisfied, Exley sets the report down. DUDLEY Ed, I want confessions. EXLEY I'll break them, sir. As Exley steps into the #1 room, Jack joins Dudley. INT. #1 ROOM - DAY JACK You think golden boy can handle it, Cap? DUDLEY I think you'll be surprised what Edmund's capable of. Exley closes the door. Ray Coates is cuffed to a chair, dressed in baggy County denims. One eye swollen shut, lip split, a smashed nose with one nostril split. Exley unlocks his cuffs. drops cigarettes and amtches on the table. As Coates rubs his wrists... EXLEY They call you Sugar Ray because of Ray Robinson? (no answer) They say Robinson can throw a four punch combination in one second. Do you believe that? Coates just stares at him. EXLEY You're twenty-two, aren't you, Ray? COATES Say what and so what.
EXLEY Did one of the officers work you over a little? No bite. Coates just stares back. EXLEY You look like Robinson after that last LaMotta fight. 'Course LaMotta looked a lot worse. So you're twenty-two, right? COATES Man, why do you keep asking me that? EXLEY Just getting my facts straight. Twenty-two makes it a gas chamber bounce. You should have pulled this caper a couple of years ago. Get life, do a little Youth Authority jolt, transfer to Folsom a big man. Orbit on some of that good prison brew, get yourself a sissy -- COATES I never truck with no sissies! EXLEY That fucking Larry. I almost believed him. COATES Believed what? EXLEY Nothing, Ray. (laughs) That Larry, he's a pisser. You did the Casitas Youth Camp with him, didn't you? COATES Man, why're you talkin' about Larry? His business is his business. Unseen by Coates, Exley reaches under the table, takes hold of one of three toggle switches.
- Page 7 and 8: Without warning, Bud grabs Stompana
- Page 9 and 10: The Actress storms off. Jack looks
- Page 11 and 12: HUDGEONS Remember: you heard it fir
- Page 13 and 14: MEEKS Cut me some slack. I used to
- Page 15 and 16: DUDLEY This way, gentlemen. Dudley'
- Page 17 and 18: DUDLEY Would you be willing to rig
- Page 19 and 20: OPERATOR (V.O.) (filtered) Please h
- Page 21 and 22: Cops block Exley's way. As Bud look
- Page 23 and 24: EXLEY The public demands justice, s
- Page 25 and 26: LOEW But my office has a stellar wi
- Page 27 and 28: CLERK Edmund J. Exley to chambers.
- Page 29 and 30: BUD He helped me out once. That's a
- Page 31 and 32: with a gold shovel. Pierce Patchett
- Page 33 and 34: EXT. McNEIL PENITENTIARY - DAY Grim
- Page 35 and 36: INT. HUSH-HUSH MAGAZINE OFFICE - DA
- Page 37 and 38: STENSLAND Don't look so down in the
- Page 39 and 40: meat wagons cut off by the crown. A
- Page 41 and 42: FLATNOSE I don't know. No one knows
- Page 43 and 44: BUD What happened? EXLEY Someone he
- Page 45 and 46: CHIEF Enough on that. Gentlemen, ju
- Page 47 and 48: PATCHETT I am. Are you soliciting f
- Page 49 and 50: PATCHETT Wait. Our deal still holds
- Page 51 and 52: JACK We're looking for three colore
- Page 53 and 54: BUD You use words like that, you mi
- Page 55 and 56: BUD You look better than Veronica L
- Page 57: EXLEY Quiet. I'm ranking officer he
- Page 61 and 62: EXLEY Why were you throwing clothes
- Page 63 and 64: EXLEY Larry, he called you queer. H
- Page 65 and 66: BUD One in six. Where's the girl? E
- Page 67 and 68: EXLEY How's it going to look on you
- Page 69 and 70: ELEVATOR Coates watches as the elev
- Page 71 and 72: INT. STATE ASSEMBLY - CHAMBER - DAY
- Page 73 and 74: DUDLEY Breaking a big case sticks y
- Page 75 and 76: Yeah. JACK Jack doesn't really feel
- Page 77 and 78: REYNOLDS I can't do it. HUDGEONS Ta
- Page 79 and 80: INT. LYNN BRACKEN'S (1736 NOTTINGHA
- Page 81 and 82: INT. AFTER HOURS CLUB - NIGHT The B
- Page 83 and 84: EXLEY Until he gunned down six peop
- Page 85 and 86: BUD It's like they knew they were g
- Page 87 and 88: DEN Innocuous except for the smell.
- Page 89 and 90: EXLEY Officer White? A sweet man. E
- Page 91 and 92: EXLEY Do you make the three Negroes
- Page 93 and 94: Should I? STOMPANATO BUD His file l
- Page 95 and 96: They stand, kiss again. Lynn's gown
- Page 97 and 98: INT. 1184 GRETNA GREEN (PATCHETT'S)
- Page 99 and 100: EXLEY Miss Bracken, I'm Lieutenant
- Page 101 and 102: INT. PACIFIC DINING CAR - NIGHT Jac
- Page 103 and 104: LYNN Like recognizes like. I'm pret
- Page 105 and 106: JACK Have you a valediction, lad? D
- Page 107 and 108: EXLEY We got a dead ex-cop and a gi
EXLEY<br />
Did one of the officers work you<br />
over a little?<br />
No bite. Coates just stares back.<br />
EXLEY<br />
You look like Robinson after<br />
that last LaMotta fight. 'Course<br />
LaMotta looked a lot worse. So<br />
you're twenty-two, right?<br />
COATES<br />
Man, why do you keep asking me<br />
that?<br />
EXLEY<br />
Just getting my facts straight.<br />
Twenty-two makes it a gas chamber<br />
bounce.<br />
You should have pulled this caper<br />
a couple of years ago. Get life,<br />
do a little Youth Authority jolt,<br />
transfer to Folsom a big man.<br />
Orbit on some of that good prison<br />
brew, get yourself a sissy --<br />
COATES<br />
I never truck with no sissies!<br />
EXLEY<br />
That fucking Larry. I almost<br />
believed him.<br />
COATES<br />
Believed what?<br />
EXLEY<br />
Nothing, Ray.<br />
(laughs)<br />
That Larry, he's a pisser. You<br />
did the Casitas Youth Camp with<br />
him, didn't you?<br />
COATES<br />
Man, why're you talkin' about<br />
Larry? His business is his<br />
business.<br />
Unseen by Coates, Exley reaches under the table, takes<br />
hold of one of three toggle switches.
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